I followed the installation instructions to run node-red from my smartphone via Termux. In time of writing this post i am at field work (managing traffic) and i have a LOT of free time on my hand , and i one of mine clients asked me to create some flows.
While moving and editing nodes is easy, it is a pain for me to connect them together, i always end up moving the node i wish to connect or opening the circle with options, am i missing something, can someone share their experience with RED on smartphone? I realized that if i had a connected it would be easier.
The position to start drawing lines seems to be quite precise indeed. What I usually do is long press / wiggle tiny bit -> if no wire, repeat. It typically takes 2-5 tries.
Having spent time last week fixing up a lot of the touch support for the 1.1.2, I'm well aware of the difficulties around wiring nodes.
Any fix is a bit more involved though as it'd require some touch-specific changes to how wiring works - the ports are simply too small to be accessible touch targets.
Keep the feedback on touch screen usage coming - as I mentioned in the 1.1.2 release post this is something I'm interested in gather more of. How quickly we're able to address it I can't say - but gathering the feedback is the first step.
Well i bought a touch pen , and so far it is possible to work, there are some bugs when typing/deleting (eg. Function node) Textbox so far works fine. And connecting nodes is possible.
Sometimes me too, but I agree with the mouse i would be more productive. And maybe a larger screen so i wouldn't have to resize the flows every time i want to deploy and it would be a solution on the go But so far i lost my job time mostly reading the documentation of the API i want to connect with.
Yes more productive, you can copy /paste, scroll, click back and type. If you add a menu bar if your device doesn't have one, then you also get access to recent screenshots and home. Also you can DLNA to larger screen if you wish.
Also very keen on this, similar experience, personally using an S-Pen on Samsung note 9, it's very good for pixel perfect selecting everything except node-red where it's still very helpful but falls down on wiring.
Also found resizing and hiding side panels could be way better/easier/possible on mobile / small-medium screens.
A hint popup on how to use with touch would be appreciated too as I failed to bring up the long press menu for ages, might have been misfiring brain that day though.
@knolleary Love to help test/dev if I can be of use (not the greatest JS developer but willing and semi-able)
Thumbwheels seem to have fallen out of fashion these days but they can be much better when travelling in a bumpy environment (yes, I'm talking about you British intercity trains!).
connected it would be easier.
